emetic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Causing nausea and vomiting.

   “[...] many common therapeutics of her time, such as the emetic calomel, dramatically inflamed the tongue, gums, and salivary glands.”

2. isim An agent that induces vomiting.

   “As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.”